Comparison of abstract decision encoding in the monkey prefrontal cortex, the presupplementary, and cingulate motor areas

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-32

  Merten, Katharina ^a   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Detection task; Frontal cortex; Monkey; Single unit recording

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT DECISION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CINGULATE MOTOR AREA; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DECISION MAKING; DETECTION TASK; FRONTAL CORTEX; MONKEY; SINGLE-UNIT RECORDING;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; MACACA MULATTA; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879638286     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00686.2012     Document Type: Article

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